Local starts effort to get salmon trash cansA local Kodiak man is trying to raise awareness and community support for beautifying Kodiak with trash cans covered in vintage salmon-can labels. Astoria, Oregon and Anacortes, Washington both have such trashcans, and that’s where long-time fisherman Bruce Schactler first got the idea. “I always feel that we could do a lot more in town here,” Schactler said. “I feel like other places embrace all the things that w...

Capitol Report: Budget cuts will impact all agenciesHello again. With three weeks left until the legislature’s scheduled adjournment on Sunday, April 19, the Capitol building is a busy place. While Senate and House committees continue their discussions on various bills, the Senate Finance Committee will be holding additional hearings on next year’s Operating Budget (HB 72) including public testimony early this week. A Senate floor vote on the budget is scheduled fo...

Kodiak’s Isabel Husted takes fourth place in statewide Geographic Bee Quick. Answer this: Taylor Swift performed songs from her album “Red” in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of which Asian country that borders the South China Sea? If you answered Malaysia, you’re right on the spot for a Geographic Bee competition. Four Kodiak students who competed in the 2015 Alaska National Geographic Bee at the Egan Center in Anchorage on Friday had to qualify by answering similar questions. They were ...

Alumni Update: Horn begins playoff pushAlysa Horn started postseason play with a solid outing against Opladen Sunday in Germany. The Osnabruck forward punched in 15 points and seven rebounds in a 79-60 quarterfinal victory in the Bundesliga second division women’s basketball league. Horn shot 5 of 12 from the field and hit both of her free throws in 26 minutes. The Kodiak graduate added one steal and one assist. Top-ranked Osnabruck battles fourth-seed...

Outdoor Kodiak: Spring lakesApril marks the beginning of some of my favorite fishing of the year. But with the warm winter we’ve experienced this year, I could have started long ago. Most years I’m waiting impatiently for the ice to retreat from road system lakes. Newcomers to the island and even many old timers aren’t aware that ADF&G stocks rainbow trout into many of the small lakes scattered around the road system. “Stocked trout?” you wo...

Trident wins Donor of the Year awardSeaShare, a nonprofit founded in 1994 to help the seafood industry donate to hunger-relief efforts in the United States, has presented Trident Seafoods with its National Fisheries Institute Donor of the Year award. “Trident Seafoods has been so important to our success over the years. Donating fish, services and funding to support many of the donation projects that we manage,” said Jim Harmon, executive director o...

Kodiak Island Births: March 31Brody Lee Boskofsky was born at 12:56 p.m. on Sunday, March 22, 2015, to Shahalla Squartsoff and Andy Boskofsky. He weighed 8 pounds, 12 ounces and measured 21 inches long. His parents are originally from Ouzinkie and now live in Ouzinkie. Also welcoming him too the family is Leah. Grandparents are Glenda Zeedar and Mitchell Squartsoff and Andy and Paula Boskofsky, all of Ouzinkie. Curtis Ragnar Mortenson was born...

Public Safety Blotter: March 31March 21 At 12:56 a.m., a caller reported domestic violence on Selief Lane. It was verbal only and the parties separated for the night. At 1:47 a.m., police conducted a bar check on Center Avenue. At 1:59 a.m., police responded to an open container on Marine Way. The alcohol was poured out. At 1:59 a.m., police took a man on Marine Way into protective custody. At 3:25 a.m., a caller requested a subject removal on ...

Radiothon raises thousands for St. JudeIt took a lot of volunteers to answer the phones and take donations at the annual Country Cares for St. Jude Kids radiothon hosted by KVOK/KRXX. One of the volunteers spends her time helping out because when she was a child, she herself was treated at St. Jude Children’s Hospital, a pediatric cancer research and treatment hospital in Tennessee. In 1983, Brandi Noe was treated at St. Jude for retinoblastoma, cancer...